Books
Conversations about Cairo, from the virtual world into the city
May 23, 2012
Conversations about Cairo, from the virtual world into the city
We live in Cairo. We live Cairo. We walk it, drive it, breathe it, choke on it. Sometimes if we…
In other words: Why is Mutanabbi so rarely translated into English?
May 22, 2012
In other words: Why is Mutanabbi so rarely translated into English?
“Give me verse like that, give me a poet like Abu Tayeb al-Mutanabbi, and I’ll go with you to the…
Digital media brings erotic books out of the closet
May 21, 2012
Digital media brings erotic books out of the closet
It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more.…
‘The World is a Comical Novel’: Man between free will and fate
May 19, 2012
‘The World is a Comical Novel’: Man between free will and fate
The “Be changed and bring about change” festival, held at downtown Cairo’s Metropolis Theater, presented its final play, "The World…
Laugh in the face of your jailers
May 15, 2012
Laugh in the face of your jailers
It was sometime between the months of March and May 2002 when a curfew was imposed on Ramallah, making daily…
Profile: Ghada Khalifa challenges convention in her poems
May 10, 2012
Profile: Ghada Khalifa challenges convention in her poems
Ghada Khalifa began as an amateur poet. “I first made an exhibition of my paintings. I wrote some text for…
A walk through the Institut d’Egypte wreckage
May 7, 2012
A walk through the Institut d’Egypte wreckage
Since the Institut d'Egypte burned down in December during clashes resulting from a sit-in by the cabinet being violently dispersed…
In other words: The blown-up bridges of translation in Mona Baker’s ‘Translation as (Re)Narration’
May 4, 2012
In other words: The blown-up bridges of translation in Mona Baker’s ‘Translation as (Re)Narration’
DOHA — In “Translation in and of the World,” a three-day-conference organized in Doha by the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, the…
Literature festival in Gaza hostage to Egyptian bureaucracy
May 3, 2012
Literature festival in Gaza hostage to Egyptian bureaucracy
Update: PalFest organizers were granted on Thursday afternoon travel permits by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel to Gaza…